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Gibs zu – du hast dich doch auch schon mal heimlich mit der KI unterhalten. Nein?!

Okay, dann oute ich mich hiermit. Und stelle meine brandneue Satire vor.

Es geht um KI – wer hätte das gedacht?

Lesezeit: 6 min

krasse-eloquenz.de/satiren/lin

Krasse Eloquenz · Linux, Lüfter, Lebenskrisen – Krasse EloquenzEine Nerdin zu sein, ist nicht immer einfach. Da hilft es oft, einen hilfreichen KI-Freund an der Seite zu haben, der Rat geben kann. Meist.
#ki#ai#chatgpt
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Would I be better replacing the screen (again) & installing #linux on my current laptop, or getting a second hand macbook?

I'm current on Windows 11 on an Asus Zenbook Duo with:
11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7.
16.0 GB ram.

I love that my current laptop has a 2nd mini screen, it is very useful for me.
It does seem to get very hot since the screen was changed last time - but it is also 4 years old.

I don't like Apple stuff but a friend said it's much more powerful.

Thinking of getting a refurbished Dell or Lenovo laptop to run linux on. Mostly to organise and process photos, but also some light CAD. I'll probably look for a laptop with 32gb ram.

The question is how much I should consider processor generation? Should I avoid laptops that are older than 11th gen intel processors?
Gen 9 and 10 are considerably cheaper, but I would like the computer to last a couple of years.

Linux 6.15 RC2 released!

Linux 6.15 RC2 has been released for developers and curious users to try out. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes. Spectre RSB mitigation cleanups for AMD and Intel processors, various graphics driver fixes, and all other important fixes for different kernel components.

In the release announcement for this version of the kernel, Linus Torvalds said:

It's Sunday, just barely afternoon, and I've pushed out the rc2 tag.

Things look fairly normal. Yes, this was a larger-than-usual merge window, but at least for now rc2 looks pretty much in line with normal statistics both when it comes to number of commits and to the diffstat. Nothing particularly stands out to me, but it's early in the release yet, so let's see how it goes...

About a quarter of the patch is selftests updates, which is perhaps a bit unusual but at the same time certainly not alarming.

Other than that, it's all pretty evenly spread out: drivers (gpu is about half of that), arch updates, core kernel and networking,
filesystems, documentation. A little something for everybody, in other words.

Why not try out this awesome pre-release of Linux 6.15?

Ich brauche eure Hilfe. Ihr seid doch so gut mit Technik hier.
Ich brauche für die Berufsschule entweder Laptop oder Tablet. Wollte eigentlich ein Tablet aber eine Freundin hat mir gesagt das ist gar nicht so geil wenn man viel mit Texten machen muss. Das muss ich, auch relativ viel Excel.
Was könnt ihr dazu sagen?? Gerne auch teilen damit ich paar mehr Kommentare bekomme :ablobcatheart: